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Article #968Re: anything wrong with UKACRL?
From: Vartan Narinian
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00
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Peter M. Weiss <PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu> writes: > >Someone else has observed poor response with .AC.UK too (via the >lstown-l list) I'm talking about zero response, not just poor response :-). A couple of other subscribers emailed me, after seeing one of my postings in the newsgroup. American.Edu seems to be working fine since it's gatewaying the postings to the newsgroup and to the other peer servers. It looks like the mail relay to the UK is the problem. >In terms of slowness of going throug UKACRL, you could easily be >correct for single messages, but LISTSERV does not usually deal >with single messages, but mass mailings using a Distribute >algorithm designed to reduce WAN traffic This is not a bad idea but most of the times I find (from the headers) that postings stay on the relay for many hours. -- Vartan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109803,8fac20c8bd387ee5 X-Google-Attributes: gid109803,public From: vsn@ic.ac.uk (Vartan Narinian) Subject: Re: anything wrong with UKACRL? Date: 1995/06/27 Message-ID: <3sp9jm$oen@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 105180242 references: <3smrr9$jnp@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> <95177.143624PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu> organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London newsgroups: bit.admin